Tennessee · Nonprofit
EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC
EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,676,091 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,025,300). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Easter Seals Tennessee Inc does
Mission
The mission of easterseals tennessee is to make profound positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities as they learn, work, and play in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Easterseals tn has been helping individuals with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live better lives for more than 90 years. Easterseals tn provides direct services to youth and adults across the state. Multiple easterseals tn locations throughout the state of tennessee offer a wide variety of services.see schedule o for narrative on programs.camp and recreation: easterseals tn provides quality camping services for youth and adults with disabilities. The camping program is held in an accessible environment where participants are encouraged to explore nature, work to overcome fears, and play to create memories in an inclusive program.applied behavior analysis (aba): in early 2021 to enhance service delivery, easterseals tn establish an applied behavior analysis (aba) therapy program for children in an area with no prior behavioral health services. Aba therapy is evidence based positive reinforcement treatment used to increase social, communication, and learning skills. Easterseals tn tailored the new aba program in support of ages 18 months -21 years, to take place in-home, in the classroom or outdoors in the community,providing easy accessibility for all clients…
$17,384,240 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,384,240.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $7.2M to $12M (+62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2021 10% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Lee Molette
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $67k → $86k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 61% · 2019 48% · 2020 57% · 2021 99% · 2022 72% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $645k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC?
- EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,676,091 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,025,300). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,676,091 in grants to EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,025,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing